Page 9: Historical Events In 1976
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Jun 14 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication) 


Jun 16 Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed 


Jun 16 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa. 


Jun 19 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth. 


Jun 23 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens 


Jun 25 Johnny Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66. 


Jun 28 Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of Navarone), dies at 49 


Jun 29 Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies 


Jun 29 Seychelles gains independence from Britain. 


Jun 30 A Naval Aviator tradition came to an end when brown shoes were stricken from the officers' and chiefs' uniforms. The tradition initially distinguished the Brown Shoe Navy of the aviators from the black shoes of the surface officers. 


Jul 01 Kenneth Gibson, is inaugural black president of US Conference of Mayors. 


Jul 02 Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam. 


Jul 02 Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73. 


Jul 02 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual 


Jul 03 103 hostages were rescued by an Israeli commando unit in a raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. 106 hostages had been taken from a hijacked Air France airliner on its way to Paris from Tel Aviv. Seven pro-Palestinian guerrilla hijackers, 20 Ugandan soldiers and 3 hostages were killed in the raid 


Jul 03 Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58 


Jul 03 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers. 


Jul 06 inaugural women enter Naval Academy 


Jul 06 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station 


Jul 07 Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76 


Jul 07 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars 


Jul 09 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe 


Jul 11 In the Panama-Colombia Border Region, The foreshock, a magnitude 6.7, was followed by a major earthquake of magnitude 7.0 four hours later. Several injured and10 houses and 1 bridge were destroyed in the area. 


Jul 12 Ted Mack TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72 


Jul 12 Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72 


Jul 13 Courtmartial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin. 


Jul 13 Max Butting, composer, dies at 87 


Jul 14 In this year, Jimmy Carter claims Democratic pres nomination in NY. 


Jul 15 36-hr kidnap of 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver in Calif. 


Jul 15 Paul William Gallico, writer, dies at 78. 


Jul 16 Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA. 


Jul 16 Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years 


Jul 18 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut. 


Jul 19 Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73 


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